When I first heard about the move to “Chip and Pin” debit and credit cards I was dubious about the benefits it would bring to the consumer. Gervase Markham has an interesting article in The Times Online as well as …
Read more“Do you want to restart your computer now?”
Automatic updates on Windows XP are the bane of my working life. I don’t mind the update itself, but it’s the constant nagging to reboot the machine afterwards which really grates. Thankfully someone has posted a simple solution to this …
Read moreIt’s the biggest key on my keyboard, so let me use it
Why won’t more websites let me enter my credit card number with spaces in? You know, like the way it’s printed on the card itself.
Read moreWow!
Novell have released the latest version of XGL to the community. For those not in the know, this will allow Linux to use 3D graphics hardware (as built into most modern PCs) to display the desktop and applications. In principle …
Read morePrinting and the web
My views on how and why printing sucks in web browsers.
Read moreGoogle come good
A quick follow-up to my previous posts: It appears that Google have now enabled XMPP Federation in Google Talk. This instantly turns it from being yet-another-insular-IM-system into an open system that can talk with countless other Jabber servers around the …
Read moreUbuntu 5.10
My Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) CDs have arrived
Read moreHa, ha, ha. They got me good and proper with that one
Windows Vista will come in 7 different versions Checks calendar… What? You mean it’s not April 1st? There are really going to be seven different versions of Windows Vista? Seven!? Looks at his Ubuntu CD… Hmm… my operating system of …
Read moreMore on Google Talk and passwords
On catching up with the articles that appeared on Slashdot over the Bank Holiday weekend, I was particularly interested to find a link to this Live Journal entry. It’s by someone who shares my concerns about Google’s failure to open …
Read moreOpen, or just ajar?
Google’s new chat and VOIP service is based on the open XMPP protocol. So why have they closed their doors to interoperability with the existing XMPP network?
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